Alison Brie Stars as a High-End Madame in FX’s Witness Protection as Pablo Schreiber and More Join the Pilot

Alison Brie has a new FX drama pilot cooking, and the cast just got a big boost. After quietly percolating for a couple years — with some very inside-baseball origins — the untitled series about witness protection is moving forward with Pablo Schreiber, Zoe Chao, Jamie Neumann, and Antonella Rose joining Brie.

What this thing is

"A violent confrontation drives a high-end DC madame, Remy (Brie), to turn on her partner and enter witness protection in seaside Maine with her adolescent daughter."

That is the official logline, and it pretty much sets the tone: upscale D.C. chaos, a betrayal, and then a hard reset in a small coastal town. Not exactly the first place you picture for a former power-player madame, which is kind of the point.

Who is playing who

• Pablo Schreiber (Motor City) plays the owner of a local gun shop who becomes an ally to Remy.
• Antonella Rose (A Sudden Case of Christmas) is Liv, Remy's daughter navigating the new life.
• Zoe Chao (The Roses) plays the mother of one of Liv's new friends.
• Jamie Neumann (The Deuce) is an escort working in Remy's new town.

Behind the scenes

The pilot comes from Hannah Fidell and Gina Welch, who are writing, executive producing, and co-showrunning. Fidell is also directing the pilot.

Here's the inside-baseball bit: this project first popped up more than two years ago with The Sopranos creator David Chase initially attached as co-creator and executive producer. The pilot is based on one of Chase's previously unproduced scripts that Fidell reworked for a contemporary take. That early connection is notable, even if the current version is very much Fidell and Welch's show.

Brie check-in: what else she's up to

Brie recently headlined the body-horror thriller Together opposite her real-life husband Dave Franco. It follows a couple, Millie and Tim, who ditch city life for the country right as something unnatural and nasty enters the chat and starts messing with their relationship and, uh, their biology. It's a gnarlier, more playful ride than you might expect — our guy Chris Bumbray had a blast with it and said it has that fun, slightly 80s vibe horror fans eat up.

She also just wrapped Masters of the Universe, where she plays Evil-Lyn — Skeletor's ruthlessly ambitious right hand who would happily replace him if given the chance. That one hits theaters June 5, 2026.